randall@Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) (06/18/91)
In article <9106180040.AA26036@chinle.utah.edu>, Galen Hunt <gchunt%chinle@cs.utah.edu> writes: % Does anyone know where I can get information on the DPMI standard. In article <1991Jun18.115842.11193@cm.cf.ac.uk>, Robert Hartill <rhl@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk> writes: > What's DPMI ?, Dos Protected Mode I* ? DPMI == DOS Protected Mode Interface The 0.9 version was released about 1 year ago and should be obtainable immediately from your local Intel (the folks who designed the 80x86 chips) representative. The 1.0 version was just completed and it might take your Intel rep a little longer to get a copy of that. I don't think the differences are major and I've heard rumours that 1.0 is a proper superset of 0.9 (take that with the usual amount of salt). Windows/386 v3.0 protected mode uses DPMI 0.9, but v3.1 will likely use DPMI 1.0 instead. The DPMI specs aren't large documents, but they are copyrighted so it is illegal for anyone to email anyone else a copy of it or put it out for ftp. If anyone from Intel is listening, please consider making the 1.0 spec available from somewhere via anonymous ftp (Simtel20 would be a good choice).
ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) (06/19/91)
In article <1991Jun18.140059.5678@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> randall@Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) writes: } The 1.0 version was just completed and it might take your Intel rep }a little longer to get a copy of that. I don't think the differences }are major and I've heard rumours that 1.0 is a proper superset of 0.9 There are considerable additions, but it is indeed a proper superset (though it might break code that assumes anything about the value in AX on an error return, since 1.0 returns error codes whereas 0.9 did not). } The DPMI specs aren't large documents, but they are copyrighted so }it is illegal for anyone to email anyone else a copy of it or put it }out for ftp. If anyone from Intel is listening, please consider }making the 1.0 spec available from somewhere via anonymous ftp You can call the Intel BBS at 503-645-6275 and download a softcopy of the spec. Last time I checked, it was still the 0.9 version, but now that Intel is actually shipping the 1.0 hardcopy, they have probably updated the BBS. -- {backbone}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf ARPA: RALF@CS.CMU.EDU FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/53 BITnet: RALF%CS.CMU.EDU@CARNEGIE AT&Tnet: (412)268-3053 (school) FAX: ask DISCLAIMER? Did | It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's I claim something?| what we know that ain't so. --Will Rogers